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| It is by this name that you will be identified on ZEturf. Choose a user name which you are certain to remember.
Your user name must be composed of at least 6 characters:
Ex : martin42, Verena B, JuanSarto… |
| Your password is strictly confidential and mustn’t be communicated to a third person.
It has to contain between 7 and 16 characters.
In order to assure your safety, your password must include at least 1 figure and at least 1 letter.
The level of inviolability of your account depends mainly on the level on complexity on your password. Thus we strongly urge that you do not take a name or an existing word in any language. On the other hand, you can include capital letters and distinguishing marks:
«( !<… ». |
| The need for a high levels of security are inherent to an online gaming and betting activity, and by nature implies that each user fills in all the information necessary to his identification and for compliance with the law. |
| The username is made public to other users. You can change it only once. |
| To acquire all the rights granted to our customers and to start playing ZErace, you will have to supplement your inscription by carrying out a first payment on your account.
You will be able to do so by clicking on the link "Deposit/Withdrawal" located on top left of every page following the identification process.
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| Click on the link « Terms and conditions » to read ZEturf‘s user terms and conditions. |
The 3 euros bonus applies to ZEturf.com, not to ZErace.
ZEturf bonus can not be transfered to ZErace.
It can be used to bet on real races only.
Note: Username and password to access ZErace are the same than the ones to access ZEturf. |
If you create your account on ZErace, you will get automatically access to www.zeturf.com, the site for information and betting on real horseracing.
The 3 euros bonus is offered by ZEturf Ltd to be used exclusively on www.zeturf.com. It is not valid on ZErace.
This bonus can not be transferred to ZErace.
It can only be spent to bet on real horse races proposed by ZEturf.
Reminder: User name and password for ZErace and for ZEturf are the same.
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| If you have already opened a Zerace or a ZEturf account, you can access it by entering your user name and your password in the connection area (in the top right part of our home page) and by clicking on the button « connection ». |
Click on the link « password/name forgotten » located in the identification area (in the top right part of the home page) or on the link “Forgot your Password” in the menu.
If you forgot your user name, we will ask you to indicate your email address and your password. We will then send you a reminder email with your user name.
If you have forgotten your password, we will ask you to give us your username and your email address. We will then send you an email with a new password.
If you have forgotten your user name and your password, we ask that you contact our customer service team by email and give them :
- Your family name
- Your first name
- Your date of birth
- Your mailing address
- Your email address
Our customer service team will then contact you as soon as possible and will indicate what procedure to follow.
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| Some of your personal information is not modifiable on line in order to optimize your protection. If you want to modify these particular pieces of information, we ask that you contact our customer service team. |
If you wish to modify your maximum deposit per week, select "Profile and Options" button in the Tools menu (left hand side of the page).
Select "Personnal Information" in the top menu and modify the Weekly deposit limit field.
The update is processed automatically and you can proceed with the credit of your account as the case may be. |
| Click on the Deposit/Withdrawal link (in the higher menu of the home page). After having selected your deposit mode, please fill in the necessary information (which differs according to the deposit mode you have chosen, then click on the button "confirm your payment"). In the event of deposit by credit card, after agreement with your bank, your deposit is immediately available on your ZErace account. |
| Immediately right after the race |
| Winnings are paid to the player who owns the horse at the moment it is entered in the race.
In a similar way, winnings are paid to the jockey enrolled to drive the horse and to the trainer who looks after the horse at the moment this one is entered in the race.
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When a horse is for sale, its squares can be seen by all the players.
If the horse is no longer for sale, the other players can not see its squares. |
To watch your horse racing: :
Go to the "Stable Owner" page. In the "Next Race" column (6th column), select the race your horse is entered in.
A Pop-up window appears.
Select the TV sign to watch the race.
If the race is finished already, in the "Stable Owner" page select the race from the "Last race" column (5th column). A Pop-up window appears. Click on the TV sign to watch the race.
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ZErace has developped a tool that allows you to watch your horse run in the same conditions of live, that means without knowing the outcome in advance:
General left side menu > My Profile & My Options.
>> Check the two following box:
Hide account balance in the left side menu
Hide my results on the "My Performance" page
By logging on the site, click first on the new link "My performance", placed for this purpose (link in the shortcuts, under the plan, homepage).
Then you have to click on the link visualization of the race (last column) that appears directly to this page if this option is selected. |
In the left hand side menu select "Stable Owner", then in the top bar menu select" My contract with Trainers/Jockeys to display the list of your horses.
Select "Choose" in the New trainer column to change trainer or in the New jockey column to change the jockey. Enter the username of your new choice. |
Yes it is the player registered as jockey when the horse enters the race who gets the fee, even if he has not validated the racing tactic.
If he is missing often it is up to you, the owner, to decide to continue with him or to hire an other jockey!
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Yes, that is possible. In order to do so:
Left side menu, "Positions"
"Stable Owner"
"My contracts with Trainers / Jockeys"
Filter: Age = Pending foals
New trainer
Enter the username of the Trainer to whom you wish to entrust your horse as soon as it is born.
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| It appears in the Race creation page, but only after the race has been validated (registration limit over). |
Yes it is possible.
To do so, select Stable Owner button (left hand side menu), then select Sell a horse (top page menu), and click on the last column title Retirement.
Then you can decide not to keep this horse any longer (early retirement).
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Each stallion receives 10 breeding points (breeding points = the right to breed with a mare) the first day of each month.
It is possible to earn an extra 20 breeding points each month.
As long as the 30 breeding points obtained throughout the month have not been touched, then the stallion earns 1 breeding point each time that he finishes among the first half of the horses in a public race. (E.g. third out of 6/7 participants, 4th out of 8/9 participants, 5 out of 10/11 participants etc...). |
The breeder has scheduled the covering for later.
You will receive the funds 28 days before the foal's birth, i.e. on the day of the visit of the veterinarian.
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Providing the breeder has the funds on his account on that day.
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No it is not possible because the horses are not of the same racing type.
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When a stallion is 57 days old, he can start receiving breeding propositions, on the condition that his breeding quota is positive.
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No it is too late as the pregnancy lasts 28 days.
The latest date for a foal birth is the day the mare is retiring (and is removed from the game).
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| It will be born in your stable, just like normal. Don't worry about it. |
This error alarm can occur in two cases :
- the mare will be retired (permanent retirement) on the scheduled date for the birth. If you can not schedule the birth at an earlier date (because of the 28-day gestation period) then the covering is not possible.
- the stallion owner has not accepted your offer for the covering in due time. The scheduled date for the birth is in less than 28 days. There is no sufficient time for the veterinary to visit the mare for the start of the gestation period (28 days are required before the birth).
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No, the mare can have one foal only.
The Sir of the foal will be the stallion of the owner to who you sent the covering request first (regardless of who accepted to sell the covering first).
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Yes, it's possible at any moment as long as the breeding proposition hasn't been accepted by the stallion's owner.
In order to do this:
Breeder > My offers > Click on the the icon in the last column of the table (the one marked "Delete") |
There are two ways to find a record of this covering and the epxtec Birth date :
Solution 1 :
Go to the Breeder page and select My foals button.
Then in the Age selection menu, select Not born yet
Solution 2 :
Go to the Breeder page and select My mares. Click the name of your mare and select Genealogy button. You get the list of her foals, including the unborn ones. For example if you have already plan two births for this mare, one on the 1st of March and one on the 1st of April, both unborn foals will be listed.
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Yes, at ZErace a mare in foal races normally; Her racing capabilities and performances are not altered.
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All the players have access to the same initial information through the help (How to Play) available in the Tool menu. There is no other help section on ZErace.com.
From there, every one can progress from his own analysis, his own tests, etc .
You can gather information on the forums which are meant to facilitate exchanges and help between the players.
You can also join a Clan. It is usually an efficient way to learn quickly the tips and tricks of the game.
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Yes it is possible.
While in the training program, you can select the option to repeat the training daily. The same program will be repeated automatically every day at random hours.
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A horse who is trained regularly progresses globally with the exception of obedience that evolves only when the horse takes part to races.
You are referring to a game of chance most probably because of a lack of obedience. When obedience is poor, overall performances are not stable. Thus even after a 6-day training program where he has improved speed, stamina and flexibility, you may not see the results simply because he does not feel much like racing. It can be that the following day you get the opposite result.
So train the horse and enter him to races to better control what you perceive as chance (but actually it is not chance).
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It means that the horse is at his maximum for the given characteristic.
This limit is part of his genetic code. It is not possible to get an extra square, no matter how fast or often the horse gets the squares.
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Yes it is possible except in the case of a black square (please refer to the following question).
When the training mark is red (regression) in one of the characteristics, the horse can loose a square.
Important : Even with a good training a horse can still loose a square.
A training may translate in a regression in one of the characteristics : If the speed increases by 30 and the Stamina reduces by 10, training results are the same than when both the speed and the stamina raise by 10. The training results are the addition of the variations for each of the characteristics.
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Once a horse gets a black square for a given characteristic, it can not regress. Therefore it can not loose this black square.
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No there is no fundamental difference between manual training and automatic training: the results are similar for a given set of parameters.
Nevertheless, when using the manual training, you can fine-tune the parameters daily and, over a period of few days, you can set up a training program that is more precise than the automatic one.
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ZErace automatic training program works the three performances in a fair and consistent way, and does not take into account black squares that may be granted.
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Have you accepted the Jockey contracts?
Please select Jockey (on the left), then select My racing contracts with owners (top right). If there are outstanding contracts, either click the ball to confirm the contract or click the dustbin to reject it.
Once the contracts have been accepted select the Jockey button (menu on the left hand side) to get the list of the horses you will drive.
Then simply select the race then Prepare for the race (blue font).
Enter your strategy and click OK to register it.
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It is necessary to correlate the « strength » of appeal / request with the horse’s “endurance”: it’s its capacity to tolerate “whippings” and its efforts to sustain a speed that is faster than its basic speed.
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Yes obedience impacts the result of a test race, in the same way it impacts the result of a race against other runners.
No, obedience is not improving with test races but it is improving gradually by running races against other horses.
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| No, this does not have any impact. |
If your horse wins the race category just over his own, he climbs up a class over his category. He has therefore risen from Category A to Category Listed.
Another example is based on the categories below:
Your horse is F, he ran in E, he won the race E, a result, the horse rises to E (not D). |
| Category races are exclusively managed by zerace in flat racing. The whole 7% collected entry fees which do not go back into allowances are pooled into the monthly bonus cash prize which rewards all owners with horse that reach Category I for the first time (Hall of Fame). |
These monthly bonus cash prizes are intended to reward Stable Owners of horses reaching Category I for the first time.
Each horse generation has its own independent kitty calculated each month on the 7% collected by ZErace on category races during the previous month. The prizes are paid on the first day of each month in proportion to the number of owners. |
Left side menu
Tables
Flat Racing : Hall of Fame
Monthly Prize Pools |
| To receive a portion of the monthly prize pool, it is necessary to reach the Class I. In other words, your horse in Class A needs to climb 3 additional categories. Listed, II and then I. |
| No, the fact to qualify once from Categoty II to category I is sufficient to be eligible for this cash prize. |
| Only the owner upon the transition into Class I is eligible to the monthly bonus cash prize. |
- An owner who makes two horses of different of reach the category I during the same month will get a portion of each monthly bonus cash prize related to each age.
- If the same owner has two horses of the same age who reach the Category I in the same month for the same generation of horses, the owner touches proportionately twice as much as an owner who has reached with a group I only one horse. In summary, the owners receive in proportion to the number of horses that belongs to them and reaching the Group I, for each horse generation. |
| A special feature for the discipline hurdles: Falls |
Punters Meetings include the most prestigious races.
These races, sponsored by ZErace (an additional cash prize is added to the pot that is redistributed to owners whose horses finished the race with an eligible place for allowances), are the only races where it is possible to place bets. |
Nomination to Punters Meeting races starts at 8:30 pm CET (Central European Time) 2 days before the Meeting. Registration closes at 5:00 pm CET on the eve of the Meeting. Additional specificity to these Punters Meeting races: the drive strategy must be entered before this registration close, so before 5:00 pm CET on the eve of the Meeting.
You can locate these "Punters Meeting" under the "Stable Owner" section of the website: click the link "Race Search" and then select "Punters Meeting" from the field "Class" in the grey area named "filter". |
Eligible Horse rule aims at making a selection among nominated horses as demand to race the cash sponsored races (Punters Meetings) exceed the offer.
All horses are ranked during nominations in a descending order according to their net winnings (trotting, hurdle) or category (flat racing).
The ranking takes place in real time, taking into account each new registration and cancellation.
This ranking can be viewed in the Race Card.
The horses that qualify to race are those placed at the top of the list, within the limits of the maximum number of participants.
The horses classed too far down the list are placed on a waiting list. There is a possibility that they will become qualified to participate later on, if there is a sufficient number of cancellations of previously qualified horses.
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Right side menu
The Punters Tribune
Click "Latest Edition"
Menu on the top: it pops up a request for interview when you have a horse nominated in a Punters Meeting race (whether you are owner, jockey, or even driver of the nominated horse). |
| Sales Ring - Auction room |
| A reserve price is the lowest price at which you are willing to sell your horse(s). If you don’t want to sell it/them below a certain price, you can a set a reserve price. The amount of your reserve price is not disclosed to potential buyers and bidders. |
All players must take the initiative to organise a public race, i.e. a race that is open to all ZErace players.
When organising a public race, the racecourse Manager will be debited 48% of the inscription fee.
If the race reaches 5 or more participants, then the racecourse Manager is reimbursed the set-up cost and earns a commission that is equal to 7% of the total amount of the inscription fees.
As with every public race, 93% of the takings are redistributed among the winning horse owners.
If the race doesn't take place, or includes only 2, 3 or 4 participants, then the racecourse Manager does not get a refund on the set-up cost, and receives no commission.
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A race can not be cancelled if there is at least one owner registered to it.
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No they will be open for 7-year old horses only, but 8-year old horses already registered will remain in the registered list.
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| You cannot set the race time later than in the next 48 hours. |
At the creation of a public race, the track manager is debited of a desposit equal to 49% of the race entry fee set by track manager.
This deposit is not refunded in the following cases:
- Hurdle: less than 3 runners.
- Trotting or Flat racing: less than 4 runners
Above these numbers of runners, not only the racetrack manager will be reimbursed the deposit, but he won a success fee equal to 7% of nomination fees (number of runners time race entry fee)! |
On ZErace experience shows that this is not the supply, which stimulates demand, in terms of filling races.
Beyond a certain level, these races compete among themselves to undermine and ultimately to fill each of them.
Experience also shows that the players in general, prefer to run less often in races with 8 to 12 runners, than running most often in races with 2 to 4 runners.
In conclusion, if there were no risk to the creation of public race, there would undoubtedly be too many courses offered, and this would produce a devastating effect on the degree of filling races.
Furthermore, we believe that from the moment the manager has a hope of gain related to its initiative (Committee of success if its course met three starters in the race barrier or four starters in the race for Trot or Flat) it is normal that there is a risk involved. The two go hand in hand. |
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